{
  "id": 17925342,
  "title": "The cow, the flea and the genome: One Health and the statecraft of prevention",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/the-cow-the-flea-and-the-genome-one-health-and-the-statecraft-of-17925342",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-03T07:06:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
    "slug": "the-hindu-sci-tech",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/the-cow-the-flea-and-the-genome-one-health-and-the-statecraft-of-prevention/article71630249.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Ashoka, an Indian ruler in the third century BCE, recognized the importance of medical care for both humans and animals in his Major Rock Edicts. He ensured that healing herbs were planted wherever necessary, demonstrating a holistic approach to healthcare. Over two millennia later, Rudolf Virchow, a pioneer of cellular pathology, reaffirmed that the boundaries between human and animal medicine are blurred and should not be artificial. This concept of interconnectedness between the health of humans, animals, and the environment was succinctly encapsulated in the term 'One Health' in the modern era.",
  "summary": "A cattle virus at home and a plague scare abroad make the same argument this World One Health Day: life is epidemiologically indivisible, and the institutions that govern and study it must learn to be so too",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}